Christian Ude

Christian Ude (26 October 1947-) was Mayor of Munich from 12 September 1993 to 30 April 2014, succeeding Georg Kronawitter and preceding Dieter Reiter. He was a Social Democratic Party of Germany member.

Biography
Christian Ude was born in Munich, Bavaria, West Germany on 26 October 1947, and he worked as a journalist and a lawyer. Ude became an SPD politician, and he served as Deputy Mayor of Munich from 1990 to 1993 and Mayor from 1993 to 2014. In 2013, he was the SPD's leading candidate in the Bavarian state election, but his party held only 20.6% of the Landtag seats after the election, while the CSU held 47.7% of the seats.